Peter has worked with OSTIF twice on both our audits of CRI-O. We have been so lucky as to see first hand Peter’s expertise, attention to detail, and love of open source during our mutual engagements. Individuals like Peter are the backbone of the open source community and industry, and OSTIF offers our thanks and appreciation to all software maintainers whose behind-the-scenes work enables our global digital experience.
What is your name?
Peter Hunt
Please provide a quote about your relationship or work with OSTIF. What do we do together and what does it mean to you?
I am a maintainer of the CRI-O project, and I believe CRI-O was one of the first engagements OSTIF worked with the CNCF on. Back then, CRI-O really struggled to get a security audit. We had worked with one company, but there were contract negotiation issues that delayed CRI-O’s audit by a whole year. When OSTIF joined the scene, the audit happened in a matter of months. We’ve just completed our second audit through OSTIF and the process continues to be a breeze. I’m a big fan of OSTIF’s work and constantly am recommending projects engage with them.
How did you get involved in open source?
As an end-user adopting Linux in college! I didn’t begin developing until I was hired as an intern at Red Hat, but I was pretty quickly converted to the ethos of open source software, and eagerly hoped to turn my professional career into FOSS development.
What open source communities are you involved in?
I’ve spent my entire professional career around container runtime technology. I started working on Podman, and then began working on CRI-O, and now have moved up the stack again and am focusing on SIG Node in Kubernetes.
How do you define your relationship with OSTIF?
A deeply satisfied collaborator and big fan!
Who is someone you admire in open source? What do you appreciate about them?
Oooh, that’s a tough one. I’m deeply inspired by people who toe the line of empathetic and technical. I think it’s easy to be correct and rude, but hard to be correct and kind. There are so many people in my career I’ve seen, but I’ll call out the late Kris Nóva as an example of someone who struck this balance.
Why do you work in open source? Is there an event, person, or project that inspires you?
Every person stands on the shoulders of giants. There is no person living today that is not supported by the accomplishments, hard work, and inventions of other people, both living and dead. I believe the accumulation of human knowledge is the ultimate project of our species, and we constantly improve these commons to (ideally) improve the lives of those who come after us. Developing in the open allows me to stay true to those principals while also benefiting from life as a software engineer.
Keep up with CRI-O:
WEBPAGE: cri-o.io
TWITTER/X: https://x.com/adalogics?lang=en
GitHub: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o
Contact them: Slack: Kubernetes #crio